Friday, June 3, 2011

Skyler's Swimming Cake and Lady Bug Baby Shower!

In the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to make a birthday cake for a friend and a baby shower cake for another friend. I only post these pics to say, "If I can do it, so can you!" I haven't had any lessons, I' am just a big copy cat! I surf the internet find a pic and make it up in hopes of creating something that looks kind of-sorta like the original. I get real picky because I am such an amateur and I always see alot of flaws but I am trying to get over that. After all, I am not charging some outlandish professional fee. Nope, these are cheap cakes! Its fun but I won't lie, my imperfections stress me out.

I really do want to take some lessons soon and hope that it will be possible in the near future, cause, to be honest, I can't make a rose, at all. Not even anything that remotely looks like a rose and I am pretty sure that making a rose is like cake decorating 101. I also can't make the shell border that is like a cake making standard-I just make up borders and hope people don't look that closely.

This first cake is a pool in case you can't tell. My young friend swims on the swim team and so I tried to make it look like lanes at a swim meet. He is winning and these other two guys are close behind. Their even wearing little speedos! Haha! They are made out of fondant, so completely edible.

The picture of this one really makes it look better than I thought it did. I had thin spots in the icing in a couple of places that really frustrated me but after its been in the fridge it is too late to do repairs so you just have to live with it. The baby's nursery is all decorated in ladybugs so I found a picture like this on the internet and just had to try. Again the bug and spots are made out of fondant and I left circle cutting on the lady bug up to my fabulous husband. He is more precise than I would ever be. He used a small plate to get the bug perfectly circular. The spots I made with a candy thermometer tube that was just the right size for punching out circles. It's amazing what you find in your kitchen to use on these cakes.

Looks like I have another groom's cake coming up in January, so my wheels will begin to spin about that one soon. I hope this inspires some of you amateurs out there. Seriously, if I can do it, a mere "Ace of Cakes want-to-be", then you can too! Its fun, a little stressful but fun and you can do it. Also, your family will love you for all of the practice cakes you will try out on them!

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